Curtis Menyuk, PhD

Curtis Menyuk is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).

Menyuk’s research focuses on time and frequency measurement and transfer, nonlinear optics, optical fibers, lasers, optical resonators and micro resonators, scientific computing, nonlinear dynamics and solitons.

Menyuk became the founding member of the Electrical Engineering Department when he came to UMBC as an associate professor. A fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the American Physical Society, Menyuk pursues research in an extensive variety of application areas.

He won the 2013 IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Award and was a 2015–2016 Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Light in Erlangen, Germany. Previously, he was a 2008–2009 JILA Visiting Fellow at the University of Colorado in the group that won part of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Menyuk received his bachelor’s degree in physics from MIT, his master’s degree in physics from MIT, and his Ph.D., in Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.